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[funnysideblog]

Minos and sisyphus argue over who visits who. Minos dislikes greed, it is too hot and dry and everything burns into your skin, sisyphus thinks lust is very cold and the winds and temperature are not nice to his hair. But minos agrees to travel to greed with him. Sisyphus covers him over with the fabric wrapped around his waist, picking him up and protecting him from the unforgiving sun. Sisyphus crosses the sands. Minos questions it. Is it not supposed to melt skin off bone? 'You grow used to it.' But he wasnt going to put minos through it.

They get to sisyphus' place, there is a pool in the lower floor, out of the sun and comparably very cool. The snakes seem to be enjoying themselves however. They enjoy sisyphus' presence, resting around him to soak up his body heat and the sun.

It is not an entirely private area, anyone is free to enjoy the water here. But its empty and just private enough for the two of them. They share drinks, minos enjoys the pool and sisyphus sits on the side. He just has his legs in the water and he leans back on his hands to watch minos in the pool, jokingly chiding him for how little he visits and how much he enjoys his time here.

Minos eventually makes his way closer to sisyphus. He takes sisyphus' foot into his hand, running his hand over it as he remembers their conversation earlier. It is terribly scarred and hurt looking. No wonder he doesnt feel it anymore. His whole body is like this, and they are not even scars from his actual punishment, just the cruelty of hell and its elements. Sisyphus brings his own hand to minos' side, soft unscarred skin, a testament to how different they are, how their treatment differs. Minos is brought deeper into his thoughts. He has never been treated like that. Not by hell. Not by anything. His hands travel to rub sisyphus' calves, working through the tense muscles as he thought, hands sinking into his damaged skin.

#rephrasing my fanfic draft into a post because im not writing that #i think sisyphus' body has warped alongside the torment and he does not feel its affects badly #like everything in greed. everythings seemed to adapt and kind of grusomely evolve with hell and everything #minophus #im saying greed specifically because like u dont get crazy shit like that in any other layer like the enemies introduced there are warped #very specifically #and i bet it has heavily scarred him too

[snowyh2o]

I’ve convince myself that the Alastor’s 1 (one) job was to keep Adam busy and he fucked it up.

Also, people keep saying Alastor fights like an angel -> fights like he’s invincible, and I don’t see it? Dude’s fighting like he’ll be pancaked if he gets so much as a scrape. At least for the first half. And then he starts showing off and gets pancaked.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #alastor #alastor hazbin hotel #alastor vs adam fight #very specifically #during the first half he’s solely focused on dodging Adam’s attacks and then counterattacking #taking advantage of how angels leave themselves open after an attack #using long distance attacks once he can get some space #but the moment he enters demon form and takes the first move #he leaves himself open and gets hit #so yeah he got cocky #but he didn’t start the fight like that

[waddup-its-homegirl]

Very big fan of media that goes “wouldn’t it be romantic if we rotted here together” like yes, it is very romantic, correct.

#anyways thinking about how my choir director was like ‘’ a boy and a girl by Eric whitacre is too morbid’’ #and like you’re correct it’s incredibly morbid #but have you considered it’s like the most romantic thing ever #nightmare before Christmas #tmagp #the magnus protocol #and #That one rusty fears contest winner #very specifically #rusty fears 4- new roots #shoutout to Cecilia morelli your story lives rent free in my head

[sugarglider-s]

you ever die in your besties arms after giving him the title you believe he rightfully deserves and that you are sacrificing your life for in order to try and stop the apocolypse but the symbol of that title and therefore your bond is torn to shreds and hes left cradling your body in his arms because you dont know how to help others without becoming the sacrificial lamb and he further believes he is too cowardly and weak to stop tragedies from happening directly because of you dying on purpose.

#originshipping #very specifically #pokespe #pokemon special #champion wallace #steven stone #sugartalks

[thewrittenrules-blog]

And, a choice short-sighted, miserly and desperate

And, scarcity grows always in a broken soul

And, our world fell away with the defeat of wisdom

And, grief like a cold winter mourning

And, moving on like a rotten laurel branch fallen

#thewrittenrules #rulesofearth #be happy you'll be dead soon #writers on tumblr #mine #not random #very specifically

[messybouquetoflilies]

rly rly need to be beat with a belt rn

#very specifically #spontaneous beatings <3 #for the funsies #pspspspspsps sadists pspspspspsps

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[nouverx]

"I want to eat you" is their love language and you can't change my mind

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin alastor #hazbin rosie #radiorose #alastor #my art #autodesk sketchbook #they are so freaky they must have so many fucked up conversations like that I just know it #it's their weird way of “flirting” yk what I mean #I headcanon that Alastor HATES burgers and fast food in general ik it's very specific #my artstyle is so inconsistent ahah I'm experimenting don't mind me

[dogmotif]

if you're not obsessed with anything weird and niche please try harder. stop going outside for a while. consider getting weirder about the things you already like

#have i mentioned to you guys that ive got back into robot wars. really full force #and its not that niche really but its confined to a specific group of fans. and its very autistic #will speaks

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years

[spacedace]

What is it about laying on the floor when you're overwhelmed that makes everything feel so much better?

#like its better than laying on a bed when it comes to that very specific state of absolutely out of your gourd overwhelmed #it takes serious self control for me some days to just not lay on the floor if things are too much #floor time is best time

[bereft-of-frogs]

There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

#aka: genuinely sometimes I think I live in a parallel universe and simply watched/read different things #full disclosure it does make you feel like a killjoy sometimes #because often times these fanons will be presented in a silly jokey manner #'oh so silly isn't this character so funny this is just my silly little headcanon' #and it's like yes yes lol lol but ok look me in the eyes and tell me you know that this is #at best only one interpretation of many and at worst simply not supported by the text at all #please tell me you know that #or in one specific example such a ubiquitous joke that is literally a significant theme of the work and i feel like SUCH a killjoy #being like 'ok yes very funny.....you know that was a major theme right?? tell me you know that'

[joycrispy]

Zepotha will never be Goncharov because when it comes down to it, tumblr culture is collaborative, while tiktok culture is merely iterative, and those are not the same thing.

#also because tumblr has a very specific way that it interacts with the media it loves #like make no mistake; when we made Goncharov we were a little bit making fun of ourselves #and the way we project high emotion and significance onto even the smallest details #(also the way we want everything to be gay) #tiktok isn’t doing that. they think the joke is the fake movie itself. but the fake movie isn't really the point. #the point is the fake FANDOM #goncharov

[victusinveritas]

The snake and owner have been reunited, but this was posted near the elevator in a friend's apartment a few days ago.

#snakes #very specific signs #lost and found

[druid-for-hire]

[images ID: three images of a comic titled "one must imagine sisyphus happy" by druid-for-hire. it is a visual narrative beginning with someone with wrist pain (depicted by bright orange nerves) working at a drafting table. the reader is shown the same wrist as the person uses it for many everyday tasks such as carrying a grocery basket, pushing elevator buttons, typing, and doing dishes, until the pain dissolves all the panels into chaos. the person then performs several physical therapy exercises until the pain subsides. they sit back down at a desk with their laptop, sigh, and begin typing. a small spark of pain reappears. end id]

a fun little piece i made during the semester and submitted into our school comic anthology! (which you can buy at the Static Fish table at MoCCAFest in NYC ;] ). it's about artists and injury

#comic art #comics #original comic #chronic pain #carpal tunnel #tendonitis #my art #original #edit: what a delightful surprise to see this take off #this was made for class on very low fuel and very few thoughts and late at night and exhausted #the prompt was just a wordless narrative essay. three pages. and i had nothing and no ideas #and my head hurt and i was too tired to think about doing any of the like. research and mind mapping and ideating i'd do otherwise #but my arm hurt #so i decided to do a thing about arm hurty #i'm surprised to see so many people finding it resonating with them #but then again i shouldn't be. the universal lies in the specific #i should make more things about smaller stuff

[messybouquetoflilies]

my job should give me a $11,000 bonus and 2 months off in about... 9 months for how hard i worked this week

#very specifically